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He continues to profess his confidence that Newey and Honda will eventually produce the best car and engine.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

“We profess to be the best in the world in this sport,” U.S. general manager Michael Hill said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Liebling didn’t profess to be the best wordsmith who ever lived, but he did say that he could write faster than anyone who could write better.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Rightly or wrongly, it’s inciteful, serving only to distract from and hurt the pro-migrant cause the flag-wavers profess to champion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

Burr’s response was incisively curt: “having Considered it attentively,” he wrote, “I regret to find in it nothing of that sincerity and delicacy which you profess to Value.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Yet it simultaneously professes anxiety about an Asian American who has decidedly not stood apart from American institutions and culture: After graduating from Yale Law School, Wang clerked for two Supreme Court justices.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

To his credit, author Michael Scherer professes good intentions in featuring Kennedy in such an adulatory light: to help bridge some of the political division plaguing our country.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025

“The mask slips—again,” Glass said, adding that China should behave like the good neighbor in Asia it professes to be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

But Bonneville professes to be a huge Christmas fan.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025

The first, which will perhaps become increasingly important in an inquisitive age which professes to still value privacy, makes it possible to obtain sensitive information about a group of people without compromising any person’s privacy.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Xi Jinping must have chuckled at the president’s professed outrage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

He professed a belief in laissez-faire economics, signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, and remained over-focused on the value of the U.S. dollar.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

But Nexstar seems to be only aggravating the tension between its professed Middle America branding and its actual business moves.

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2026

"Damned time," Totti professed to his adoring faithful afterwards.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

Joyce professed not to care, but it pained Joe that he could not take her there.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Back in 2016, Taco Bell introduced its limited-time “quesalupa” to the Canadian market by calling on everyday fans to read scripts professing their love for the product in appropriately cheesy, ’80s-style dating videos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

“The league has been professing doom and gloom for decades.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025

Mr Candunde and Mr Phiri have been charged under Zambia's Witchcraft Act with "possession of charms", "professing knowledge of witchcraft" and "cruelty to wild animals".

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024

It shouldn’t be, since it’s clear what Instagram thinks your memories are really worth, despite professing so much concern over its users’ feedback.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2024

I didn’t know anything at the time; Dennis had been as cryptic and evasive as ever, Jack professing nothing.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee